Quiz - Chapter 18 - Why Do We Automate

Question 1

ElasticBeanstalk is an example of ___.

Answer 1

Platform as a service (PaaS)

ElasticBeanstalk is a PaaS service and handles everything for you

Question 2

Whenever possible, we should focus on __ processes over doing things ____.

Answer 2

Automating over manually

Automation is the key when using AWS

Question 3

What is NOT a benefit of using ElasticBeanstalk to deploy your application?

Answer 3

It will rewrite your application from any language into Python

ElasticBeanstalk can’t do that for you

Question 4

Your brand new CloudFormation stack just encountered an error. What happens to the resources that it had created?

Answer 4

They are terminated.

In order to save money, CloudFormation terminates the resources from the template.

Question 5

Systems Manager can be used to patch and update _ and __.

Answer 5

EC2 instances, on-premise instances

Systems Manager will handle on-prem and EC2 instance patches

Question 6

What part of a CloudFormation template allows you to pass values into the template?

Answer 6

PARAMETERS

Parameters allow us to pass data into the template before it’s created.